The device features clever business tools like document annotation and BlackBerry synching, and a durable all-plastic screen that is Plastic Logic's proprietary technology.
Apple, the Note 8.0's unremarkable, all-plastic shell serves a purpose.
You get the same all-around plastic build -- ringed here with metal -- ports for microSD and micro-SIM, 3.5mm headphone jack and physical home key.
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There a clearinghouse network allows electronic settlement of all plastic-money transactions for any type of card or issuing bank.
Plastic makes up about 80 percent of all marine debris -- plastic shopping bags alone make up 10 percent.
Now Terry has written a book that compiles all of the plastic-free living knowledge she has amassed over the years: Plastic Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too.
Look at all of that -- diaper packaging, electronic wrap, the plastic wrap from around paper towels -- all stuff that I have thrown in the trash at one point or another because I had no idea how to recycle it.
Obviously, people don't eat cellophane, but I think, oh my God, what a waste of plastic - all the petroleum.
San Francisco-based Method already uses 100% post-consumer plastic in all its bottles, but has struggled to get other companies to follow its lead.
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Michael's actions in later years -- from his serial plastic surgeries, which removed all family resemblance, to his famous crotch-grabbing dance move -- can be seen as lashing out over that abuse, Wanis said.
Miniature muffins carefully stacked on their carousels, melon balls piled into plastic bowls--all awaiting the new heroes of America.
But it isn't just people in the UK who are getting involved in the backlash against plastic bags -- all around the globe people power has started to make real change.
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Nothing wiggles, nothing feels like it's in danger of breaking off, and all of the materials seem to be there for a reason: the tops of the jog wheels are grooved to feel like vinyl, for instance, and knobs, faders, and buttons are all coated in non-slip rubber or plastic.
The Montgomery County tax, which was passed by the County Council Tuesday, covers all paper and plastic bags distributed at check-out by a retail establishment.
Due to be released sometime in August, Apple's newest consumer computer comes wrapped in curvy, translucent blue plastic and features the "all-in-one" look of the original Macintosh.
The plastic was also a necessity after the all-metal body of the Transformer Prime resulted in widespread GPS and WiFi signal problems.
We were now all moving away from rubber and plastic straps and into full-on stainless-steel wristbands to match the TAG Heuer casings.
But when you look a little closer, you see dozens of men in white hazmat suits stuffing soiled material into plastic bags, which are then piled onto all-terrain vehicles and taken off the beach.
Three years later, they've got a phone on the market: a cute, palm-sized object that looks a bit like it's derived from the original Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iMac, all curves and transparent tinted plastic.
Though it's predominantly made of matte and glossy-finished plastic, it still feels solid and not at all hollow.
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Now she can fit all the plastic waste she generates in one year into a small Ziploc-size bag.
After all, the concept - creating flexible electronics and assembling them on equally flexible plastic - has been touted since the 1960s, when the first flexible solar cell arrays appeared.
Electronic equipment, high-end beauty products, vouchers for vacations and four-star hotels, gift certificates for hair transplants or plastic surgery, bottles of booze, diamonds--all are de rigueur in the celebrity swag bag.
So all the water her family uses is in drums, plastic buckets, pots - any container that is clean.
So it would seem Israel would need to distinguish between those plastic magazines and 3D-printable ones, or ban possession of all non-metal high-capacity magazines outright.
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Honestly, thinking of this like frozen yogurt isn't all that far off -- the Replicator creates solid objects by layering levels of thin plastic extrusions on top of themselves.
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There's a black plastic accent all around the edges, with the majority of the phone -- the front, "active flip" and keypad -- finished in a handsome shade of dark gray plastic (cream and blue being the other two colors available).
To further discourage single-use containers, Portland just passed a bill that bans plastic bags in all major grocery stores.
Environment Minister Amedi Camara said that nearly all of the plastic package waste is not "collected and is found in the natural environment - land and sea - where they are sometimes ingested by marine species and livestock, causing their death".
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